Guild Mergers, or How to Lose Your Officer Standing in 3 Days

So by this time Magdalena was one of the officers of the Savage War Boyz, and the highest level priest in the guild, very likely going to be the first string main healer for raids and possibly class leader. Then, one day, the guild leaders second-in command suddenly /gquits. Th guild channel is a flurry of questions, of course, but our leader was offline. Not even any of the officers knew what was up. We found out later things weren't going fast enough for the #2 man, and he jumped ship for the biggest and most progressed guild on the server (though they were only just getting enough 60s to raid, and we were probably only a week or two away from that point). Over the next few days, a deal was worked out. The big guild decided in an effort to flesh out the 40 man rosters, they would offer us and another smaller guild the oppurtunity to merge wih them. The new guild would be run by a triumvirate of the three old guild leaders, and each would choose 3 officers for the new guild.

Sadly, I was one of the newer officers. I was not picked. Other things sucked too... each guild lost about a third of its orgianl rosters in the merge, including some of my favorite guildies. We voted on a new name, and ended up with the name Vaevictus (lame in my opinion). We were however now the biggest, baddest, and most progressed guild Horde side. I tried to look on the bright side. Even losing my officer status, I was still the second highest level priest in guild, still pretty much a shoe in for first string raider. Sure, guild chat was as spammed as trade chat at this point. Sure I didnt like a lot of the new guildies. But, it was still a good opportunity.

Not long after, I dinged 60 with much fanfare, and was immediately set to respec holy and brought to LBRS, UBRS, etc to start gearing up for ZG. Within a few weeks, we were ready for our first ZG run. And it would be that that would spell my first major break from WoW...